Ukraine gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. In February 2014, President Victor Yanukovych was ousted by pro-EuroâAtlantic members of parliament after he used security forces to crack down on popular protests against his attempt to tighten ties with Russia.
They are generally thought to be called wisdom teeth because they appear so late â much later than the other teeth, at an age where people are presumably wiser than as a child, when the other teeth erupt. The term probably came as a translation of the Latin dens sapientiae.
countable noun. 1  Your wisdom teeth are the four large teeth at the back of your mouth which usually grow much later than your other teeth. 2  any of the four molar teeth, one at the back of each side of the jaw, that are the last of the permanent teeth to erupt.